September 5, 2012

With all this talk of rugged individualism and emphasis on women at the conventions, I offer my coinage: rouged individualism.

My Google search indicates that prior uses of the word combo "rouged individualism" were all typos from people who were badly misspelling "rugged," e.g.:

The Pacific Northwest has the group identity of "Rouged Individualism". There are plenty of positive aspects of this perspective, but as is obvious, plenty of pitfalls as well. So now I'm independent and capable but by using my strengths, not trying to be something I'm not.

I'm interested in Allie's theory (Ooponomics) that a rugged individualist, someone who pays their own way, is a net expense to the community, and that Julia, someone whose every decision costs someone besides her money, is a net asset.

"Rouged individualism" is a nice attempt, not all that successful, to give new life to a dying (OK, completely dead) cliche. It would probably work better as a visual pun, though, since that kind of poking-fun often is better achieved by indirection.

That reminds one of lyrics, " In 1915 we took a little trip along with Henry up the mighty Rouge River and entered the world's largest vertically integrated auto manufacturing plant that made the steel, made the tires, nade the engines and assembled the model Ts.

One of the most common player "classes" or types in massively multiplayer online roleplaying games (MMORPGs) like World of Warcraft is the rogue.

In every online game in which there are rogues, the most commonly misspelled word IS "rogue." Inevitably it is spelled "rouge."

Being a pedant, my standard line when my rogue encountered someone who made this mistake was: "Rouge is the makeup that approximates the blush your cheeks should be wearing for misspelling the name of the rogue class."

Lamo, lamoer, lamoest. Debbie Wasserman-test (Sgt. I Know Nossink) Schultz is not even a lamo imitation. You are overly generous. She can't turn a phrase like Sarah, and she can't turn a man's head like Sarah (look away, look AWAY, dixie--and all others-land).